Christopher Bell wins USA 301 New Hampshire
New Delhi: A health department official in Gujarat reported on Wednesday that a four-year-old girl had died from the Chandipura virus, confirming the first such death in the state. The state, which has reported 29 cases of the virus that causes fever, flu-like symptoms, and acute encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), is suspected of having killed up to 14 other patients. “The sample of a four-year-old girl from Aravalli district’s Mota Kanthariya village, who died at the civil hospital at Himatnagar in Sabarkantha district, has tested positive for the Chandipura virus.” Sabarkantha Chief District Health Officer (CDHO) Raj Sutariya was quoted by the news agency PTI as saying, “This was the first death due to the Chandipura virus infection in the state.”
Another patient from Rajasthan’s Udaipur has passed away from what is thought to be the Chandipura virus while receiving treatment at a state hospital. Two from Sabarkantha, two from Aravalli, one from Mahisagar, one from Mehsana, two from Rajkot, one from Surendranagar, one from Ahmedabad, two from Morbi, and one from GMC are among the districts where the alleged deaths have been reported. Additionally, reports of cases have come from the districts of Kheda, Gandhinagar, Panchmahal, and Jamnagar. Officials stated that two other patients, one from Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar and one from Rajasthan’s Udaipur, have received treatment in the state hospitals. The vesicular viral genus of the Rhabdoviridae family includes the arbovirus known as the Chandipura virus. Phlebotomine sandflies are the main vector of transmission, while ticks and mosquitoes can also carry the virus. It has been observed that children are more likely to contract this virus. It was discovered for the first time in India in the Maharashtra village of Chandipura in 1965. A sharply elevated temperature is usually the first sign of a Chandipura virus infection. Severe headaches, vomiting, convulsions, and changes in mental status have been reported to follow.
In Gujarat, four youngsters pass away from what appears to be a Chandipura virus infection
Three cases from nearby states—two from Rajasthan and one from Madhya Pradesh—had also received treatment in Gujarati facilities, according to Mr. Patel. One of the two Rajasthani patients has passed away. He continued by saying that the State Health Department had conducted thorough surveillance of the impacted districts and that a special advisory to treat suspected cases with specific symptoms, including cases of the Chandipura virus, had been sent to the community, primary health centers, sub-district hospitals, and medical colleges. “The disease has a high mortality rate, and patients have a low chance of survival if treatment is delayed,” the speaker stated. According to pediatrician Rajesh Maheshwari, if a patient enters a coma, the death rate may reach around 50%. It’s always best to stop its spread because once it starts, it’s quite hard to stop. Dr. Maheshwari stated, “The state authorities need to start taking preventive measures in the affected areas and take it very seriously.”
He continued by saying that appropriate sanitation, fumigation of animals, and pesticide spraying in rural regions all aid in preventing the virus that infects youngsters between the ages of nine months and fourteen. State health officials have checked around 44,000 people in 8,600 households from 26 residential zones as a precautionary step after suspicious cases were first reported from Sabarkantha. According to the Health Minister, among those who have passed away while receiving treatment in the hospitals are two patients from the Sabarkantha district, three from Aravalli, one from each of the districts of Mahisagar and Rajkot, and one from Rajasthan.
The Chandipura Virus: What Is It?
In the town of Nagpur, in central India, a novel virus that caused fever in people first appeared in April and June of 1965. In a 1967 study report, Pravin N. Bhatt and FM Rodrigues from the Pune Virus Study Centre categorized the Chandipura virus as a novel arbovirus or virus spread by arthropod vectors, exclusive to India. The virus was regarded by Bhatt and Rodrigues as one of the rare mammalian viruses that induce structural alterations in the host cell as a consequence of viral infection. The researchers discovered that the virus was fatal to both adult and baby mice. The Chandipura virus belongs to the family Rhabdoviridae and is recognized as a member of the Vesiculovirus genus. The bullet-shaped virus that belongs to the family is called Rhabdo, which means “rod-shaped” in Greek. This information was reported by scientists A.B. Sudeep, Y.K. Gurav, and V.P. Bondre in a review article that was published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research in 2016.
According to the review article by the three scientists, the 2003–04 CHPV virus outbreaks in central India caused 322 child deaths, with 183 occurring in Andhra Pradesh, 115 in Maharashtra, and 24 in Gujarat. The fatality rates for Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat were 56 and 75 percent, respectively. Additionally, they discovered that the majority of patient deaths occurred within a day after the onset of symptoms.
Leave a Reply